Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a semiconductor die including an active surface with bond pads, an opposite inactive surface, and stepped side surfaces extending between the active surface and the inactive surface. The stepped side surfaces include a first planar surface extending from the inactive surface towards the active surface, a second planar surface extending from the active surface towards the inactive surface, and a side surface offset between the first planar surface and the second planar surface. The semiconductor device further includes an adhesive layer covering at least a portion of a surface area of the second surface and attaching the semiconductor die to the substrate.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit (IC) package includes a molding having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface opposing the second surface. An interconnect is encased in the molding. The interconnect includes pads situated at a periphery of a side of the IC package. A portion of the pads are exposed at the first surface of the molding. A die pad is situated proximal to the second surface of the molding. The die pad has a first surface and a second surface, the first surface opposing the second surface, and the second surface is circumscribed by the second surface of the molding. A die is mounted on the first surface of the die pad. A heat spreader is mounted on the second surface of the molding and the second surface of the die pad. The heat spreader extends between edges of the second surface of the molding.
Abstract:
The assembly of a chip (101) attached to a substrate (103) with wires (201) spanning from the chip to the substrate is loaded in a heated cavity (402) of a mold; the wire surfaces are coated with an adsorbed layer of molecules of a heterocyclic compound (302); a pressure chamber (404) of the mold is loaded with a solid pellet (410) of a packaging material including a polymerizable resin, the chamber being connected to the cavity; the vapor of resin molecules is allowed to spread from the chamber to the assembly inside the cavity during the time interval needed to heat the solid pellet for rendering it semi-liquid and to pressurize it through runners (403) before filling the mold cavity, whereby the resin molecules arriving in the cavity are cross-linked by the adsorbed heterocyclic compound molecules into an electrically insulating at least one monolayer of polymeric structures on the wire surfaces.
Abstract:
Described examples include a device including a semiconductor die having a first surface with bond pads and an opposite second surface attached to a substrate by an adhesive layer covering at least a portion of the surface area of the second surface. The adhesive layer includes first zones composed of a first polymeric compound and adding up to a first portion of the surface area, and second zones composed of a second polymeric compound and adding up to a second portion of the surface area, the first zones and the second zones being contiguous. The first polymeric compound has a first modulus and the second polymeric compound has a second modulus greater than the first modulus.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a method for inhibiting or preventing delamination at the interface of the die attach/mold compound and the die pad of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device formed by such method. The method includes providing a leadframe having a top surface; coating the top surface of the leadframe with first and second silane coating; heating the silane coatings to form a porous layer having a porosity of at least 10%; applying a die to the porous layer; securing the die to the porous layer by a die attaching compound; and after the curing of die attach material and wire bonding, a mold compound is applied through molding.
Abstract:
The assembly of a chip (101) attached to a substrate (103) with wires (201) spanning from the chip to the substrate is loaded in a heated cavity (402) of a mold; the wire surfaces are coated with an adsorbed layer of molecules of a heterocyclic compound (302); a pressure chamber (404) of the mold is loaded with a solid pellet (410) of a packaging material including a polymerizable resin, the chamber being connected to the cavity; the vapor of resin molecules is allowed to spread from the chamber to the assembly inside the cavity during the time interval needed to heat the solid pellet for rendering it semi-liquid and to pressurize it through runners (403) before filling the mold cavity, whereby the resin molecules arriving in the cavity are cross-linked by the adsorbed heterocyclic compound molecules into an electrically insulating at least one monolayer of polymeric structures on the wire surfaces.
Abstract:
A packaged semiconductor device (100) comprising a leadframe having a pad (101) with an assembled semiconductor chip (110), a plurality of straps (102) connecting the pad to side edges of the device package, leads (103), and a package (150) of plastic compound adhering to the leadframe; at least one surface (102a) of the straps covered with a layer (120) of a compound both non-adhesive to polymeric compounds and hydrophobic; the compound (220) selected from a group including fluorinated thiol compounds, fluorinated amine compounds, fluorinated aminesilanes, organosilanes, and their derivatives; or the compound (330) selected from a group including open-pore microcellular metal foams and polymer foams. Further, the package may include an array of holes through the plastic compound, extending from the package surface to the strap surface.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for enhancing the electrical and thermal performance of semiconductor packages effectively, especially for laminated packages, where sinterable materials cannot be used. The concept of this invention is to embed silver or silver-coated nanomaterials, which can be nanoparticles, nanoflakes, nanowires etc., into die backside to improve the interface between die and die attach materials, thus enhancing electrical and thermal performance through sintering and enhancing reliability by improving adhesion.
Abstract:
A chip is attached to a substrate with wires spanning from the chip to the substrate is loaded in a heated cavity of a mold. The wire surfaces are coated with an adsorbed layer of molecules of a heterocyclic compound. A pressure chamber of the mold is loaded with a solid pellet of a packaging material including a polymerizable resin. The chamber is connected to the cavity. The vapor of resin molecules is allowed to spread from the chamber to the assembly inside the cavity during the time interval needed to heat the solid pellet for rendering it semi-liquid and to pressurize it through runners before filling the mold cavity, wherein the resin molecules arriving in the cavity are cross-linked by the adsorbed heterocyclic compound molecules into an electrically insulating at least one monolayer of polymeric structures on the wire surfaces.
Abstract:
The packaging of an electric contact including a semiconductor chip (102) having terminals (101) of a first metal and connecting wires (111, 112) of a second metal, the wires forming at the terminals regions (113) of intermetallic compounds of the first and second metals; a solution of an aromatic azole compound dissolved in ethanol is dispensed onto the surfaces of the wire spans and the intermetallic regions, thereby forming on the surfaces layers (301) of adsorbed molecules of the aromatic azole compound; chip and wire bonds are encapsulated in a polymerizable resin (401), thereby exploiting the adsorbed aromatic azole molecules as catalysts to cross-link resin molecules into polymerized structures (402) having a mesh density capable of inhibiting the diffusion of impurity ions (410) and thus protecting the surface of the intermetallic regions.